Bundle-carrier.



H. M. WILLIS.

BUNDLE GARRIRR. APPLICATION FILED APRRIB, 1906.

PATBNTED APR. 16; 1 07.

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NO. 850,705. PATENTED APRy -G] 1907. H. M. WILLIS- V BUNDLE CARRIER. -APPLIUATION FILED APRflZ, 1906.

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BUNDLE- Specification of Letters Patent.

CARRIER.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application filed April 12, 1906: Serial No. 311.214.

cheap, and compact bundle-carrier, the suspending-hooks of which can be folded against the body of the frame for packing or trans portation purposes; to provide a bundlecarrier which affords a comfortable grip to provide a bundle-carrier having an extensive surface to which may be applied advertising media, and to provide a bundlecarrier the body portion of which is constructed of a single piece of sheet metal.

With the above objects in view and others which will be detailed during the course of this description the invention consists in the parts, features, and combinations of elements hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings accompanying this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of mybundle-carrier ready for use. Fig. 2 is afront elevation ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the holders folded against the handle or grip. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is anend elevation, and Fig. 6 is a plan of a blank from which the handle or grip is made.

With reference to Fig. 6 it will be seen i i that the blank from which the handle or grip of the bundle-carrier is made consists of the blank-body 1, having near one edge the laterally-extending ears 2, arranged at opposite ends of the blank, leaving the short extension 3 extending along the top of the blank. The blank-body 1 under each extension 2 is provided with a wing 4, each wing being separated from the body-blank a short distance from its ends by means of the cuts 5, this construction rendering it possible for the said wings to be turned over to form journals, as hereinafter described. N ow referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the blank is folded substantially along the dotted line 6, so as to bring the two edges of the blank together to form the handle or grip 7, the same being given the approximately oval shape 1 shown in Figs. 1 and 4, but considerably larger at the base than at the top. The edges of the blank at the top are soldered together at 8 or may be merely pressed firmly together, in which instance the tensile character of the metal will be depended upon to produce a substantially tight union. A wire cord-holder 9 is then passed through the handle or grip and placed with its depending curved and returned ends 10 in position such that the angles 11 thereof lie at the ends of the wings 4, which are overturned upon the wire 9 so as to form the journals 12, in which the wire maybe rotated so as to lay the returned ends or loops 10 back against the handle or grip, as shown in Fig. 3. Obviously the wire 9 has considerable resiliency, and when turned into the position of Fig. '3 the same will snap or spring past the body or grip portion and lie in position, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to prevent accidental turning down into the position of the other figures. Clearly, to put the bundle-carrier in use it is only necessary to spring the arms past the ends of the grip portion. The extensions 2 form guards and rests for the said loops or ends 10, and the ends of the latter may be returned, as shown at 13, to, prevent the sharp ends causing injury under any circume stance. It will be understood that when the bundle-carrier is not in use and theloops 10 are turned back into the position of Fig. 2 a given number of them may be packed in small compass for transportation, or the same may be placed in ones pocket without the objectionable projection of the loops, the bundle-carrier becoming substantially flat, according to my invention. By giving the grip or body the substantially oval form with its base somewhat enlarged, as shown, the user is enabled to get a very firm and comfortable grip upon the same, thus avoiding tiring the hands, as is common with the ordinary wooden tubular bundle-carrier now in common use.

As an advertising medium my bundle-carrier has great commercial advantages, and structurally it will be obvious that the same affords quite an extensive surface for the application of a great deal of advertising matter.

From the above description it will be seen that I have produced a simple, compact, cheap, and strong bundle-carrier possessing many obvious advantages in addition to those already enumerated and that the same presents no difliculties in manufacture, as the blanks of Fig. 5 may be stamped out by the thousands and bent into form either by hand orwith simple tools, according to the character of the material employed for the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bundle-carrier made of a single piece of sheet material bent into substantially oval form to provide a grip or handle, in combination with a cord-holder extending longitudinally of and journaled on said handle and having supporting-loops bent so as to extend at substantially a right angle to the holder.

2. The combination in a bundle-carrier, with a tubular grip or handle portion, of a cord-holder consisting of a single piece of wire having a supporting-loop at each end, means for journaling said holder upon said handle or grip so that it may swing, and means for retaining the loops within the compass of the handle when the said loops are turned out of operative position.

3. A bundle-carrier having, in combination, a handle portion or grip, a cord-holder having supporting-loops, said holder being journaled upon the handle portion so that it may be turned back within the compass of the latter, and ears extending beyond the handle portion at opposite ends for shielding the loop when turned back, as described.

4. A blankfor bundle-carriers composed of a single sheet of material having the oppositely-disposed ears and adjacent the same the oppositely-disposed wings separated for aportion of their length from the blank-body.

5. A bundle-carrier having in combination a handle or grip portion provided with journal extensions and also having end ears, and a wire carried by the journal extensions and. having loop portions which may be turned back against the said ears, substantially as described.

6. The combination in a bundle-carrier, of a grip or handle portion, with a cord-holder journaled on the handle portion provided with recurved, spring-loops, and means whereby the said loops may be housed within the compass of the handle when they are turned out of operative position and sprung past the handle portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name 1n the presence of two subscrlblng wltnesses.

HENRY M. WILLIS.

I/Vitnesses:

CHAS. MCC. CHAPMAN, M. HERSKOVITZ. 

